I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

You narrow hope when you define it.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

Winter, I wrote, was akin to living inside a refrigerator.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

We thought, you know, this will just be kind of low-key. And no one will ever know we're here, and we're tucked back in.

The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.